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ISIS has looted between $500 million and $1 billion from banks in Iraq and Syria, and now wants to return to gold currency.

The phrase "you've got quite a package" has seldom been worth a cumulative $1.3 billion but when it comes to five exceptionally well-paid CEOs, it astoundingly IS.

In a single year, ISIS brings in close to a billion dollars in "taxes" that are strong-armed from people living within its territory.

If it feels like the rich just keep getting richer while you slog along, well, you're not wrong. In a report out this week, a powerful statistic was released detailing how extreme the concentration of wealth has become in the United States.

Carlos Slim: "Employment requires that companies invest, so we don't need to give away companies, we need to create companies."

Just in time for the holidays is a story that will warm your heart. Recently, at an airport in Ireland, a billionaire named Shlomo Rechnitz encountered a group of 400 American soldiers. What he did for them is nothing short of wonderful.

Billionaire Marc Benioff has grown Salesforce into one of the biggest software companies in the world over the last 16 years. Benioff has a net worth of $3.2 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan welcomed their baby daughter Max into the world with a $46.6 billion pledge to donate 99% of their wealth to charity. They are part of a growing trend among billionaires, especially those in the tech sector, who have chosen not to leave their fortunes to their children.

There's an old saying: "more money than sense," and the four billionaires on this list prove that to be very true. They have chosen to spend their money in more unconventional ways…

A joke has been making the rounds of Silicon Valley for years: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison? God doesn't think he's

Mark Zuckerberg and his physician wife Priscilla Chan announced the birth of their daughter Max today (Tuesday). They also committed to an enormous donation…

It's not a great time to be getting kickbacks in Brazil, and it's not a great time to be the one making the kickbacks, either.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has a net worth of $32 billion and he wants to spend it all to save and unify the world. He has joined The Giving Pledge to do so…

For once, Mark Cuban was happy to pay a fine for his notoriously bad language.

For Seattle residents, the name Martin Selig is nearly eponymous with their celebrated city skyline. However, the billionaire real estate developer is not a native. Selig escaped Nazi Germany to build a fortune in the Pacific Northwest.